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Sports for me is when a guy walks off the court, and you really can't tell whether he won or lost, when he carries himself with pride either way.
Jim Courier
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Jim Courier
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: August 17
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James Spencer Courier
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What I've seen historically is winning is a major aloe. It solves a lot of problems.
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You'd have to think that if he'd been around today, Rod Laver would have been Rod Laver.
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You can kick a ball into the net, throw a basketball into the net. Tennis is complicated. It'll make a lot of great athletes run the other way because they can't be successful initially.
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Tennis is still very successful in spite of itself.
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There are things we can't control - like the wins and the losses.
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America is the world's policemen, whether you and I like that or not. That's a fact. People globally feel that.
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There's no evidence that says that the money a federation has translates into success. I hope that that will change.
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Focusing on one thing can be tough, and people with fewer options are more apt to concentrate on what they're doing. There's probably something to hunger.
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Even the poor can be fat in the U.S. That says something about a country. That's how incredible what we have is. But it can also take away incentive.
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Without a doubt, there's huge satisfaction when a relatively smaller nation can take on a bigger nation and defeat them. There's a lot of pride in that.
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We lose a lot of young athletes because tennis is such a difficult sport. It's not like kicking a soccer ball.
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I'm a big proponent of Hawk-Eye. I think it's a wonderful addition, not only for the players, but more importantly for the fans.
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What separates the winners from the losers is that they can deal with doing their best while still coming up short.
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Hell be lucky to last five or six years on those knees. What it might have to come down to is playing less on hard surfaces and playing more on forgiving surfaces.
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Many books have been written about what the X-factor is, what separates people who win big matches versus those who struggle. Some of it's innate, but there's a piece of it that's learned, embracing those moments.
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What I like about the USTA is that it's developing systems to help the coaches coach better.
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Trophies separate the winners from losers, and life is about winning and losing. Go into business and you see. You're competing every day.
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I'm not suggesting that the entire nation can't be successful, but there's something to it when you have 150 cable channels and the Internet at your fingertips and video games and all kinds of ADD-addled devices like my iPhone and your BlackBerry and things that keep us busy.
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You need to make sure everyone is healthy first and foremost.
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America has an interesting global role, don't we? It certainly seems to be changing. Our government right now has a softer hand than we've had in the past, but I still think that we're the global behemoth.
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